What Sarah Palin’s Past Year Can Teach Us

There are a few lessons Republicans, Conservatives, and women who opt not to vote Democrat can learn from the past year in Sarah Palin’s life:

  1. No matter how scrupulously you stick to your constitutional role on policy matters, if you are conservative and Christian, your opponents will call you a fundy theocrat.
  2. No matter how accomplished you are,  people will insist you’re not very bright.
  3. If you are a woman who attempts a life in public service without an Ivy League degree, no matter what you’ve done in the intervening twenty years, the tittering nabobs will call you the kinds of things they’d be excoriated for saying about a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader or a Hooters waitress.
  4. If, only other hand, you are a conservative woman who did get an Ivy League degree and went on to huge accomplishments, you’ll be called a bitch who boffed up.
  5. If you are a conservative of either gender, no matter how closely your views are tied to those of most mainstream Americans, you will be called “crazy”.
  6. If you are a conservative of either gender, the media will consider you guilty until proven innocent of any ethics charges  brought against you.  Note the double-standard; a liberal lothario is linked with exploiting interns on company time and lying about it by a stained blue dress, and we were urged to “Move On”; Crazee McJackal from Otter Giblet Alaska says Sarah Palin took hush money from Venusians, and it’s treated with solemn urgency.

So there you go, conservative women.  Those are the ground rules.

You can thank all those “feminists” on the left for all they’ve done for women.

18 thoughts on “What Sarah Palin’s Past Year Can Teach Us

  1. Hell, I’d love to see it on TownHall as well. Get the message out (even tho most conservatives already know this).

  2. Can’t believe you kooks wanted to put that flake next in line to the presidency. Even Biden’s smarter than her and at least he has way more experience.

    “Ooh, governing Alaska, with buttloads of oil royalties and no need to tax anybody, is just too hard! I quit!”

    Still pretty hot of course.

  3. 5. If you are a conservative of either gender, no matter how closely your views are tied to those of most mainstream Americans, you will be called “crazy”.

    Don’t forget that Janet Napolitano will put you on a potential terrorist watchlist.

  4. Mitch,

    She’s plenty bright, she’s just terribly ignorant – and THAT was what was her undoing. It wasn’t that the ‘media went out to sabatoge her’ – or any other rightwing meme’.

    David Frum was qouted as saying her chances were ‘impossible’ of becomeing President – quotations below:

    From CBS News:

    >>”Impossible,” is how Bush’s former speechwriter David Frum described the likelihood Palin would become president.

    Frum based his opinion on Palin’s decline in approval ratings from when she was announced as John McCain’s Republican presidential running mate in August termed her “divisive” within the party.

    Asked what she represents for the future of the GOP: “political defeat.”

    Conservative commentator and author Ann Coulter sharply disagreed with Frum, saying Palin had “amazing star power,” and said she represents the Republican Party that was known for winning elections in the last two decades.

    Frum’s criticism of Palin Monday was a continuation of a debate he had with Coulter on Saturday’s “The Early Show” in which he said of Palin:

    “Basically, quitting for the stated reason that you can’t get anything done in your job and because you can’t endure the criticism you’re receiving and then cashing in, in order to make a lot of money is not a good resume with which to run for president of the United States. She was a calamitous candidate in October of 2008. We’ve never seen poll numbers for … any national candidate decline as fast as they did for Sarah Palin. The more the American people know her, the more unacceptable she became and that trend’s going to continue.” >>

    I know you are smarter than to side with Ann Coulter – so I’m not going to make that accusation – but seriously, the woman was her own undoing. If anything, the past year should have taught conservatives that putting up photogenic manaquines is NOT a good way to run a party. Each time this woman opened her mouth away from a scripted environment, she ate shoe leather, from claiming she had to deal with Russia, to saying she reads all of the various media papers and magazines, to quitting because she’s a ‘powerless lame duck’ – her problems have been her own, not some media invention. Put all the spin on it you like, even your own party members, other than those who appear infatuated with her sex appeal and ‘fiestiness’ understand she’s a lightweight.

  5. I have a theory that my wife refuses to call herself a conservative for many of the reasons stated above.

    Say, Peev… is Ann Coulter not smart, or is she just ignorant too?

    (lol!)

  6. If anything, the past year should have taught conservatives that putting up photogenic manaquines is NOT a good way to run a party.

    Pen, you’re basically supporting my point.

    The left meme machine labels every genuinely conservative woman either a “dumb but cute mannequin” (Palin), “Insane” (Bachmann), “Evil” (Phyllis Schlafly, who was the first woman admitted to Harvard Law), no matter what their real accomplishments.

    Let me turn this around; Ann Coulter is always through out there as the extreme of the extreme. OK – so what has Ann Coulter said and done that Keith Olbermann, Paul Begala and Joy Behar haven’t? Not a whole lot. But since Ann Coulter is a conservative women, she is held to a different standard. Not a “higher” one, mind you, just one that clutches its pearls and howls in anguish when a hot conservative babe says things that a slug like Barbara Walters or Maxine Waters says without compunction?

  7. Mitch misinformed: “Evil” (Phyllis Schlafly, who was the first woman admitted to Harvard Law), no matter what their real accomplishments.

    Wow, that would make a good story if it were true. Unfortunately, she got her law degree from Washington University. The Harvard of eastern Missouri.

    http://www.eagleforum.org/misc/bio.html

  8. plenty bright, ….terribly ignorant

    Since this aptly describes the current occupant of the White House, you once again support the point of Mitch’s post.

    Kudos, Peev!!

  9. Clown: You’re right. I last read Schlafly’s bio back in 2000, and transposed Washington (which is more like the Harvard of the Lower Mississippi Valley) and Harvard. She was the first women in one or the other, and I’m too busy to worry about which right now…

    …since the point remains the same; she was an incredibly accomplished women who did the sort of things that feminists claimed to value long before most of them were “feminists”, and yet was excoriated by them for…being conservative.

  10. Penigma-
    Two points-
    -David Frum is a neocon’s neocon.
    -Palin has had more applicable political experience than Obama. Would you please tell me what experience Obama has had that qualifies him to be president?

  11. From angryclown’s link:

    “received her Master’s in Political Science from Harvard University”

    She only got her masters at Harvard. The Washington University of Massachusetts.

  12. Mitch pooh-poohed: “She was the first women in one or the other, and I’m too busy to worry about which right now…”

    Yet the 1900-word bio on Schlafly’s own website – which includes her academic distinctions from more than 60 years ago and her honorary “Doctor of Christian Letters from Franciscan University in Steubenville” – fails to mention that she was the first woman admitted to… something or other.

    She’s so modest. About this single detail, at least.

  13. Most likely, yes.

    It was from a piece written by, of all people, Camille Paglia a long time ago. I read it at a company I worked at in 1998 – at about the same time I was writing up my audition for a certain comedy website.

  14. First woman on the moon maybe? First woman to score with Wilt Chamberlain?

  15. No, first woman maybe to score with A.C., because he usually…. oh, nevermind.

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